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Last Friday morning, Colonel John R. Fellows watched from his Honolulu hotel room as what appeared to be a giant golf ball pulled into Pearl Harbor. The white dome, encasing the powerful military radar of which Fellows is in charge, was returning from a week at sea. "It just came in while I was sitting here," said Fellows, who works for the U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA). The Sea-Based X-Band radar was, you could say, right on time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Giant 'Golfball' for Missile Defense | 8/14/2007 | See Source »

...been scheduled to report for duty in Alaska in early 2006, but a series of structural repairs and upgrades have kept it in warmer waters. For over a year, the nine-story radar that sits atop a self-propelled Norwegian oil platform has been coming and going from Pearl Harbor for fixes and tests - a delay critics see as symptomatic of an agency under pressure to deliver a national missile defense system that is still more fiction than fact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Giant 'Golfball' for Missile Defense | 8/14/2007 | See Source »

...Islands; its semi-submersible converted oil rig platform was designed in Norway. The two parts were assembled in Texas, its 50,000 tons hoisted onto a ship, and sailed 15,000 miles around the tip of South America (it was too big to use the Panama Canal), arriving in Pearl Harbor in January 2006. Its ultimate destination is the more challenging waters of Adak, a farflung outpost in Alaska's Aleutian island chain, famous for terrible weather and 100-foot waves. The MDA claims the SBX is powerful enough to spot a flying baseball in San Francisco from New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Giant 'Golfball' for Missile Defense | 8/14/2007 | See Source »

...When Abraham Lincoln suspended habeas during the Civil War and Franklin Roosevelt ordered Japanese-Americans rounded up after Pearl Harbor, Congress quickly debated, and then blessed, the actions retroactively. As a result, Americans were "reassured that the President's unilateral action would stand only with the approval of their congressional representatives, as the founding fathers intended," Greenberger explained in Legal Affairs magazine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Congress on Gitmo: Too Little, Too Late | 7/31/2007 | See Source »

...foreigners travel more and more extensively on the mainland, outlets such as Zhuji, not far from Shanghai, could mean a decreasing number of pearl shoppers for Hong Kong. Even Joanne Larby, headed next to Beijing, decided to hold off on her shopping. "If bargains are this good here," she says, "imagine how great they'll be in China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China's Pearl City, But for How Long? | 7/26/2007 | See Source »

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